Genesis 12:2
2 aAnd I will make of you a great nation, and I will bless you and make your name great, so that you will be a blessing.Genesis 12:12
12and when the Egyptians see you, they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ Then they bwill kill me, but they will let you live.Genesis 28:13-14
13And behold, cthe Lord stood above it ▼▼Or beside him
and said, e“I am the Lord, the God of Abraham your father and the God of Isaac. fThe land on which you lie I will give to you and to your offspring. 14Your offspring shall be like gthe dust of the earth, and you shall spread abroad to the west and to the east and to the north and to the south, and in you and hyour offspring shall all the families of the earth be blessed. 1 Samuel 16:2
2And Samuel said, “How can I go? If Saul hears it, he will kill me.” And the Lord said, “Take a heifer with you and say, i‘I have come to sacrifice to the Lord.’1 Samuel 27:1
David Flees to the Philistines
1Then David said in his heart, “Now I shall perish one day by the hand of Saul. There is nothing better for me than that I should escape to the land of the Philistines. Then Saul will despair of seeking me any longer within the borders of Israel, and I shall escape out of his hand.”Romans 4:18-20
18In hope he believed against hope, that he should become the father of many nations, as he had been told, j“So shall your offspring be.” 19He did not weaken in faith when he considered his own body, which was kas good as dead ( lsince he was about a hundred years old), or when he considered mthe barrenness ▼▼Greek deadness
of Sarah’s womb. 20No unbelief made him waver concerning the promise of God, but he grew strong in his faith as he gave glory to God,
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